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Extracts relating to Underground Railroad from article "Anti-Slavery Days in Rochester" by Amy Haimner- Croughton. [Monroe County, N* Y. ]
(^^ Rochester Historical Society, Publication Fund Vol. XIV. Rochester, New York* 1936)
Lp* 113] It is not likely that the first white set¬ tler on the site of what is now Rochester--Ebenezer iO.- lan, generally known as Indian Allan--had any strong bias against the enslavement of the Negro race* Bat when other settlers began to corne into the Genesee Palls country, in the years following 1800, there is little doubt that many brought with them a prejudice against slavery. A large number came from Massachus¬ etts, where slavery had been constitutionally abolish¬ ed in 1760, and many of them were of Quaker ancestry or affiliation^ and believed that no man should be held un bondage by another*
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Colonel Nathaniel Rochester, foun,der of the city, brought the first group of freed colored people tc the new settlement on the Genesee* Letters which passed be¬ tween him and his son, 7/illiam, indicate that dislike of the institution of slavery as it existed in Mary¬ land was one factor deciding him to move his family from Hagersto^Mi to the North* liJhen Colonel/ Rochester left Hagerstown., his party included a niomber of slaves.

Extracts relating to Underground Railroad from article "Anti-Slavery Days in Rochester" by Amy Haimner- Croughton. [Monroe County, N* Y. ]
(^^ Rochester Historical Society, Publication Fund Vol. XIV. Rochester, New York* 1936)
Lp* 113] It is not likely that the first white set¬ tler on the site of what is now Rochester--Ebenezer iO.- lan, generally known as Indian Allan--had any strong bias against the enslavement of the Negro race* Bat when other settlers began to corne into the Genesee Palls country, in the years following 1800, there is little doubt that many brought with them a prejudice against slavery. A large number came from Massachus¬ etts, where slavery had been constitutionally abolish¬ ed in 1760, and many of them were of Quaker ancestry or affiliation^ and believed that no man should be held un bondage by another*
-«. -M- -JC- -K- # 4C-
Colonel Nathaniel Rochester, foun,der of the city, brought the first group of freed colored people tc the new settlement on the Genesee* Letters which passed be¬ tween him and his son, 7/illiam, indicate that dislike of the institution of slavery as it existed in Mary¬ land was one factor deciding him to move his family from Hagersto^Mi to the North* liJhen Colonel/ Rochester left Hagerstown., his party included a niomber of slaves.